the fbi. all i say is never again. but guess what? it is again and again and again. the threat level against the jewish community is historic. hate once limited to extremists, fanatics. jews will not replace us! now mainstream. this is a plague. there is no question that anti-semitism is being normalized. on city streets, online. we ve seen people livestream their actual attacks. this is disgusting. on college campuses, in politics. it s become a political prop for people on both the right and the left. how did we get here and how do we stop it? they need to be disrupted today. whenever challenged with darkness and evil we will fight back with light. this is a cnn special report. rising hate: anti-semitism in america. january 15th, 2022 was a bitter cold day in colleyville, texas. it was in the 30s in texas. doesn t usually get that cold. so when a visitor knocked on the door of congregation beth israel, rabbi charlie citron walker didn t t
everyone inside in an instant. the far left is like climate change. slowly but surely the temperature is rising. some people deny it. then some people say we can adapt to it. but suddenly it reaches the point, the temperatures become so inhospitable that people can no longer live there. reporter: at suny suny new paltz blotner s situation grew srs when a friend saw threatening posts seemingly directed at her on the social media platform yik yak. people were saying if you see the zionist spit on her. he said he saw death threats. and i called my dad and he came and he picked me up at like 3:00 in the morning. reporter: she no longer felt safe going to classes. the president of suny new paltz did send this e-mail to the campus community condemning anti-semitism in its many forms but for blotner it wasn t enough. in june lewin filed a formal
complaint on behalf of blotner and another new paltz student with the u.s. department of education s office of civil rights. the universities have an obligation to make sure all of their students have equal access to all of those educational opportunities. reporter: suny new paltz declined to speak with us on camera and the students who cassie says kicked her out of the club did not respond to multiple requests for comment. and in a text with blotner claimed they are not anti-semitic. the university did give us a statement saying they ve provided support and resources to, quote, those impacted by the events of the past year. they said they work with their jewish students and staff to support them and address anti-semitism. and they underscored as well that they support the free exchange of ideas under the first amendment. what did it feel like being kicked out of a group that you started because of a trauma that you experienced? i feel like i m having a bit
the world, jews wanting money, or when you hear things like, well, today s jews aren t the real jews, they were just descended from european converts. that s anti-semitism. reporter: harassment that blotner experienced at suny new paltz is part of a trend, rising anti-semitism in various forms on college campuses across the u.s. lewin is president of the brandeis center, which provides legal representation to victims of anti-semitism on college campuses. there s greater demand than our capacity to provide and meet the demand at this moment. we ve seen incidents at stanford, ucla, northwestern, michigan, columbia, tufts, harvard, and the list goes on. reporter: the palestinian cause is a prominent one among progressives right now. and those voices have big megaphones at universities. when i was on campus it was free tibet. why tibet? had anybody been to tibet?